Stuttering in Windows 7 x64

[MyTjoe]

Originally posted by bigboxes
Asus P6T Deluxe v2 mobo
Intel i7 920 & Super Talent DDR 1600 2gb x 3
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
Gigabyte 4890OC
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
DirectX 11
Clean installation of Winamp v5.57 w/no 3rd party plug-ins

I've noticed a stuttering during the playback of my mp3's. I store them on a file server. At first I was wondering if it was a latency issue. I then copied an affected file to my main rig and played it directly from the same machine. I still was experiencing stuttering. This was affecting almost every file on my file server so I thought that maybe my files had gotten corrupted during the many transfers to ever larger storage drives.

I had been using Winamp for almost 10 years without problem. I have one of the fastest quad core processors, plenty of memory, and a dedicated sound card. I am not short on resources. Then I decided to attempt to playback an affected file in Windows Media Player. NO STUTTERING! I read all of Winamps suggestions and applied them, including increasing the buffer levels for streaming (MPEG input) and DirectSound (output). I'm still experiencing stuttering.

Like I said, I don't lack for resources. Affected files work fine in WMP. I even changed my skin back to classic just to troubleshoot. Still nothing. What else can I do?

I have similar specs and having similar issues. Brand new Win7 64bit on Intel i7 quad, 8gb ram, etc. Windows Media Player and WinAmp are both having the same problem, but only on Streaming music (online radio stations). I know it isn't the network connection because my other PCs (winxp and win2k) can stream them all just fine. It is ONLY streams - playing downloaded content is no problem at all. I can play .m3u files and you tube and anything local on the drive. Just live streaming content is where the problem lies.